Scarlet Letter/Other Writ Nce PA

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This Norton Critical Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most widely read novel appears during the bicentennial anniversary year of his birth. The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne's lifetime. An invaluable selection of contextual material includes five Hawthorne stories that are closely related to The Scarlet Letter, along with relevant letters and notebook entries. A substantial excerpt from Hawthorne's campaign biography of Franklin Pierce offers a revealing glimpse at Hawthorne's political thought, especially regarding slavery and abolition. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on The Scarlet Letter and the stories in this edition, including nineteenth-century reviews of the novel and critical essays by Robert S. Levine, Nina Baym, Larry J. Reynolds, and Jean Fagan Yellin. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface

xi

A Note on the Texts

xv

THE SCARLET LETTER

3

(164)

Preface to the Second Edition

5

(2)

The Custom-House

7

(29)

The Scarlet Letter

36

(131)

OTHER WRITINGS

Mrs. Hutchinson

167

(5)

Endicott and the Red Cross

172

(6)

Young Goodman Brown

178

(11)

The Minister's Black Veil

189

(10)

The Birth-mark

199

(16)

Contexts

Nathaniel Hawthorne

From American Notebooks

215

(4)

From Letters

219

(13)

From The Life of Franklin Pierce

232

(5)

Criticism

NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVIEWS OF THE SCARLET LETTER

Evert A. Duyckinck

From Literary World

237

(2)

[Edwin Percy Whipple]

From Graham's Magazine

239

(2)

[Anne W. Abbott]

From North American Review

241

(9)

Orestes Brownson

From Brownson's Quarterly

250

(4)

[Arthur Cleveland Coxe]

From Church Review

254

(9)

Amory Dwight Mayo

From Universalist Quarterly

263

(8)

[Jane Swisshelm]

From the Saturday Visiter

271

(3)

Robert S. Levine

Antebellum Feminists on Hawthorne: Reconsidering the Reception of the Scarlet Letter

274

(17)

PURITAN BACKGROUND AND SOURCES

Charles Ryskamp

The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter

291

(13)

Michael J. Colacurcio

Footsteps of Ann Hutchinson: The Context of The Scarlet Letter

304

(27)

Frederick Newberry

A Red-Hot A and a Lusting Divine: Sources for The Scarlet Letter

331

(7)

Kristin Boudreau

Hawthorne's Model of Christian Charity

338

(30)

Ellen Weinauer

Considering Possession in The Scarlet Letter

368

(19)

THE CUSTOM-HOUSE

John Franzosa

"The Custom-House," The Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne's Separation from Salem

387

(17)

Douglas Anderson

Jefferson, Hawthorne, and "The Custom-House"

404

(14)

THE SCARLET LETTER

Michael Winship

Hawthorne and the "Scribbling Women": Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-Century United States